Indian Prime Minister Narendra Singh Modi yesterday expressed his admiration to the commitment shown by President Maithripala Sirisena to promote reconciliation and sustainable peace in Sri Lanka while ensuring democracy and freedom.

The 21st century opens up in an age facing an array of traditional and non-traditional security threats emanating from natural calamities, climate changes, human exodus and displacement, violent non-state actors, issue of ethnicity, new-fangled ideology, religious radicalism and political activities, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said, adding that the most leading threat is violent extremism.

Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka Chairperson Dr.Deepika Udagama said attitudes of the people must change for the country to move forward and adequately address the sufferings of families of disappeared persons.

The Court of Appeal on 29 August deferred for today the decision to consider granting Gnanasara Thero permission to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the sentence delivered against him by the Court of Appeal on 8 August.

Sri Lanka lost its last athletics medal hope when the men’s 400M relay team ended up in fourth place clocking 3:02.74 secs at the Asian Games 2018 continued at the Gelora Bung Karno stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia yesterday.